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2621) British murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
British manor murder: Lucy can't wait to join her friend Sue for a gala hat show at the English country house owned by the Earl of Wickham. But at Moreton Manor, there are secrets--and some unpleasant relatives--lurking among the elaborate chapeaus. When a bludgeoned body is found in a hidden room, Lucy must sift through friends and family foes to find the low-down killer stalking the upper crust, before more blue blood runs red . . .
English tea...
2622) The international
Language
English
Description
An Interpol agent works with a Manhattan assistant district attorney to work through layers of corruption and greed in a high-profile financial institution to expose an arms dealing ring.
2623) Hannibal
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment,Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Many years after Hannibal Lecter's escape, one of his victims seeks revenge against him and FBI agent Clarice Starling is used as bait.
2624) Independent bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly earns the admiration of many -- and the ire of others. During a speech in the park, in which Alala tries to organize the women of Zinnia to demand equal pay, the crowd gets unruly, with men heckling the professor....
2625) The house of four
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Language
English
Description
Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. Four siblings live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other. Then the sister is found stabbed through the heart. Inspector İkmen attends the scene, and finds her three brothers dead as well, each in their own apartments, but killed in the identical way. There is no sign of forced entry or burglary. When İkmen begins to dig into...
2627) The legacy
Author
Series
Children's House volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Description
The first in an exciting new series from the winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel. The only witness to a shocking murder is the victim's ten-year-old daughter, Margret. The police turn to the Children's House for their expertise in childhood trauma. Freyja doesn't much like the police - especially the detective in charge, Huldar. But she does want to help them catch the killer. And when more people die - their murders...
2628) Soul of the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front...
2629) A foreboding of petrels
Author
Series
Birder murder mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Point Blank
Language
English
Description
"Some crimes are beyond the reach of the law. On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bird hide, Danny's investigation escalates. It appears the body links the two enquiries, but the men are unable to share information. As they attempt to unravel...
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Language
English
Description
A married woman having an affair with a drifter plots to kill her husband; Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate several mysteries surrounding the Sternwood family; a murder plot goes awry when the wrong person is killed; greed and deception surround thesearch for a valuable and rare statue.
2631) An old, cold grave
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's early spring of 1947 in idyllic King's Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mere et fille, are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for the winter. But while cleaning up after the roof of their root cellar has caved in slightly, they are horrified to discover a small skeletal hand embedded in the mess. Panicked, they call Lane Winslow, the ex-British secret service agent, and, not without some misgivings about the state...
2632) Saving Mr. Perfect
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's a famous jewel thief. He's FBI. What's that saying? Keep your friends close...and your husband closer. Being a retired jewel thief certainly has its perks. 1. Oh, wait. 2. No it doesn't. Without the thrill of the chase, life's been pretty dull. Penelope gardens, drives her gorgeous husband up the wall, and watches as her old world slowly slips away. But what's that old saying? When one thief closes the door...a copycat jimmies open a window....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers...
2634) The witching tree
Author
Series
Natalie Lockhart volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Burning Lake is a small, isolated town with a dark history of witches and false accusations. Now, a modern-day witch has been murdered, and Detective Natalie Lockhart is reluctantly drawn deep into the case.
2635) Home at night
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room--and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in...
2636) Outfoxed
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year...
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
Minister's wife, caterer, and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild must solve a deadly mystery more than seventy years in the making in The Body in the Gazebo, the nineteenth ingenious whodunit in the delectable, Agatha Award-winning series by Katherine Hall Page. Faith has a lot on her plate as she attempts to solve a Depression Era murder while trying to clear her husband's name after he is accused of a heartless theft. Poignant, suspenseful, puzzling,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun,...
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